The remains of Richard III were famously disinterred from a Leicester car park last winter. One-day success has long stayed unearthed at Grace Road, however, despite the Foxes’ notable Twenty20 pedigree: for three seasons they have been buried in sixth place in their 40-over qualifying group. But the winning formula was resurrected with a gleeful vengeance yesterday.

With their captain, Josh Cobb — one of nine men in the side under the age of 25 — making a second one-day hundred in successive innings and Greg Smith completing his first fifty in the format since 2008, en route to an unbeaten 135,